The Foundaton awarded the following grants in our 2002-2003 grant cycle.

Climate Change — Northeast Landscape Conservation Yellowstone to Yukon Public Lands Management Northern Appalachians

Marine Ecosystem Stewardship Building Environmental Advocacy Other Grants

Climate Change Science and Policy

Alaska Conservation Foundation
Anchorage, Alaska
($25,000 / six months) To organize and present in May 2003 a Washington, D.C. forum entitled "Distant Early Warning from Alaska: Global Warming's Front Line" and a workshop entitled "Climate Change Solutions."

Clean Air-Cool Planet
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
($300,000 / two years) Continued operating support to broaden and deepen its efforts to build a "civil society" alliance of individuals and institutions in the Northeast committed to taking steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($17,300 / one year) To employ a part-time climate change coordinator to encourage and facilitate the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and the Regional Climate Action Plan in Nova Scotia.

Henry P. Kendall Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($50,000 / eighteen months) For a foundation administered project to enable it to engage in a range of initiatives to further the development of its Northeast Climate Change Program.

Maine Interfaith Power and Light
Brunswick, Maine
($30,000 / one year) For its work with Maine Energy Investment Corporation to continue its efforts (as program manager for the Maine Green Power Connection) to develop a market for environmentally preferable electricity in Maine through general education and outreach, emphasizing the business, higher education, and healthcare sectors.

Maine Interfaith Power and Light
Brunswick, Maine
($10,000 / six months) For its work with the Maine Energy Investment Corporation as program manager for the Maine GreenPower Consortium, an effort to develop an electricity market in Maine that supports and includes clean electricity products and their providers.

Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts
($65,000 / one year) Continued support for Tufts Institute of the Environment's Climate Initiative, a University-wide effort to bring about reductions in greenhouse gas emissions through a program of analysis, education, and advocacy within the University. Funds also support a conference, co-hosted by the University, to examine and promote the role of the nation's press in covering climate change issues.

Boone and Crockett Club
Missoula, Montana
($16,500 / one year) For its work with nonprofit and agency leaders to establish a process to engage local landowners in the identification and conservation of key private lands located in wildlife linkage zones of northern Idaho and northwestern Montana.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – British Columbia Chapter
Vancouver, British Columbia
($19,500 / six months) Supplementary funding for its efforts to conduct an economic study to advance the possibility that 100,000 acres of British Columbian mountain peaks, forestlands, and essential wildlife habitat lying adjacent to the U.S. border be added to Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – British Columbia Chapter
Vancouver, British Columbia
($25,000 / four months) Funding for education and outreach efforts to support the expansion of Waterton Lakes National Park and the creation of a Wildlife Management Area between Waterton and Banff National Parks.

Miistakis Institute for the Rockies
c/o Environmental Design, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
($80,000 / one year) Continued core funding to enhance its capacity for promoting ecosystem research in the central Rocky Mountains shared by Canada and the United States, a key portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Muskwa-Kechika Trust Fund
Fort Saint John, British Columbia
($33,000 / two years) To support a conservation area design of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area, roughly one-twelfth of the entire Yellowstone to Yukon region in northern British Columbia. The design, conducted by Round River Conservation Studies, will inform the BC Minister of Sustainable Resource Management's decisions to protect wilderness and wildlife while allowing careful resource extraction activity.

Natural Resources Defense Council
New York, New York
($25,000 / one year) Funding for an internal planning effort to address the ecological threats caused by oil and gas exploration and to secure wilderness protection in the Canadian portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Nature Conservancy of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($25,000 / six months) Support for the development of a conservation agreement with a major forest products company on 110,000 acres of private land in the Elk and Flathead Valleys of British Columbia, critical to regional connectivity in the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation
Victoria, British Columbia
($40,000 / two years) For its work on the implementation of the Muskwa-Kechika Management Area in British Columbia's Northern Rockies, an area of major ecological significance in the Yellowstone to Yukon corridor.

Sonoran Institute
Tucson, Arizona
($20,000 / one year) General support to build the fundraising capacity of the Institute's Northwest Office which works with communities to advance conservation in the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Swan Ecosystem Center
Condon, Montana
($40,000 / two years) Continuing support to develop a comprehensive land-use strategy for public and private land in the Swan Valley of northwestern Montana where corporate land sales threaten the region's ecological and social integrity. This valley represents an important corridor linkage in the Yellowstone to Yukon landscape.

The Nature Conservancy of Montana
Helena, Montana
($50,000 / two years) To create a western science director position to focus on forest management on public and private lands in Montana and to enhance collaboration among conservation groups in the Canadian Rockies ecoregion.

University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta
($50,000 / eighteen months) To continue the collaboration with the University of Montana in their Transboundary Policy, Planning and Management Program focused on natural resource issues in the Crown of the Continent region of the Rockies shared by Canada and the U.S.

University of Calgary
($80,000 / one year) To expand the role of the Miistakis Institute for the Rockies within the University's Faculty of Environmental Design. The Institute is the leading ecosystem research and natural resource data center focused on the central Rocky Mountains shared by Canada and the United States.

University of Montana
Missoula, Montana
($50,000 / eighteen months) To continue the collaboration with the University of Calgary in their Transboundary Policy, Planning and Management Program focused on natural resource issues in the Crown of the Continent region of the Rockies shared by Canada and the U.S.

The Wilderness Society
Bozeman, Montana
($25,000 / one year) Operating support for its continuing efforts to protect roadless public lands for the benefit of both people and nature in the Northern Rocky Mountains-the U.S. portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

The Wilderness Society
($25,000 / one year) General support to continue its work on protecting roadless public lands from oil and gas development and other threats in the U.S. portion of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
($40,000 / two years) Support to conduct field research and prepare a report on the habitats used by grizzly bears in the Greater Nahanni ecosystem in Canada's Northwest Territories to support the consideration of expanding Nahanni National Park Reserve boundaries.

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Canmore, Alberta
($100,000 / one year) General support to build the Initiative's long-term fundraising capacity, diversify its funding base, and sustain its electronic network, enabling it to strengthen its collaborative efforts to restore and secure wildlife corridors from northwestern Wyoming to the southern Yukon.

Montana Environmental Information Center
Helena, Montana
($6,000 / one year) For its work with the Montana Old Growth Project to continue to support the implementation of a science-based rule for the management of old growth forests on Montana state lands and for its efforts to amend and improve the rule.

National Parks Conservation Association
Washington, D.C.
($60,000 / fourteen months) To support key elements of its Parks Defense Campaign, a broad-gauged effort to protect and preserve the integrity of America's most valued natural and historical assets.

University of Colorado Foundation
Boulder, Colorado
($31,500 / one year) For the writing, editing, and production of Adaptive Governance: Natural Resources Policy in the American West by Dr. Ronald Brunner, et al. the second in a series of case studies examining a new approach to the management of federal public lands.

Conservation Council of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
($31,000 / two years) To advance efforts to establish core protected areas in the Restigouche region of New Brunswick, and to develop and promote a forest conservation plan to support connectivity between the Restigouche region and protected areas in the Northern Appalachians of New Brunswick.

Forest Watch
Montpelier, Vermont
($37,000 / nine months) For its work to support the stable growth of A Network for Eastern Wilderness (ANEW), an emerging collaborative initiative to coordinate conservation science and catalyze landscape-scale conservation throughout the Northern Appalachian landscape.

Forest Watch
Montpelier, Vermont
($35,000 / one year) To support its leadership of Vermont and regional wilderness protection initiatives. Funds will also be used to strengthen the organization, focusing specifically on expanding its membership.

Forest Watch
Montpelier, Vermont
($50,000 / one year) For its efforts with the Vermont Wilderness Association to build support and advocate for increasing the amount of designated wilderness in Vermont.

Henry P. Kendall Foundation
Boston, Massachusetts
($12,000 / one month) To supplement its foundation administered project to conduct and publicly release, in collaboration with ten New England conservation organizations and funders, results of public opinion research on New Englanders' attitudes toward nature conservation in the region.

Keeping Track
Huntington, Vermont
($25,000 / two years) To increase its capacity to train and support volunteers in wildlife tracking and monitoring in the Northern Appalachians for the purpose of building a constituency for large carnivore restoration throughout the region.

National Wildlife Federation – Northeast Natural Resource Center
Montpelier, Vermont
($50,000 / two years) To support its research and outreach efforts to promote the ecological integrity of the region by returning wolves to the Northeast.

Natural Resources Council of Maine
Augusta, Maine
($20,000 / one year) For its efforts to build support for, establish, and ensure ecologically sound management of key wilderness areas in Maine.

RESTORE: The North Woods
Concord, Massachusetts
($25,000 / one year) General support for its efforts to protect endangered wildlife and wild forests in the Northern Appalachians and protect 3.2 million acres of land in the proposed Maine Woods National Park and Preserve, the largest potential wild area in the region.

Ruiter Valley Land Trust
Mansonville, Québec
($35,000 / one year) For its work with the Appalachian Corridor project to implement a Canadian-U.S. transboundary conservation strategy protecting lands stretching from the Green Mountains in Vermont to the Sutton Mountains in southern Québec.

The Nature Conservancy – Maine Chapter
Brunswick, Maine
($40,000 / one year) To support its work to protect wilderness and ecological values on key lands in the Northern Appalachian region.

Wildlands Project
Richmond, Vermont
($45,000 / eighteen months) For its work to develop and engage others in a Wildlands Network Design of connected core wilderness and linkage areas intended to protect key species and ecosystems throughout the Northern Appalachian region.

Wildlife Conservation Society
Bronx, New York
($25,000 / one year) To conduct research on the habitat requirements of the Canada lynx and American marten and to support key staff involvement in conservation planning in the Northern Appalachians of Canada and the United States.

Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia
($23,500 / six months) For its work with Saltwater Network to advance the development of the Canadian component of this transboundary initiative designed to empower coastal communities to take responsibility for stewardship of the Gulf of Maine's marine ecosystem.

Bay of Fundy Marine Resource Centre
Cornwallis Park, Nova Scotia
($110,000 / two years) To build institutional capacity to energize and lead the development of community-based marine stewardship activities in the upper reaches of the Gulf of Maine.

Cobscook Bay Resource Center
Eastport, Maine
($35,000 / one year) Continued general support for its efforts to encourage and strengthen community-based approaches to resource management and sustainable development in the Cobscook Bay region, the Bay of Fundy, and the Gulf of Maine.

Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($55,000 / two years) To support the activities of the Marine Issues Committee, which focuses its efforts on key marine environmental issues, and to survey the financial capacity of conservation organizations working on resource use, nature conservation, and community-based management in the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada. Funds also cover the costs of a workshop designed to increase the capacity and effectiveness of these organizations.

Gulf of Maine Aquarium
Portland, Maine
($40,000 / one year) Continued support to develop the Gulf of Maine Research Institute with a mission to support the sustainable use and stewardship of living resources in the Gulf and its watersheds.

Island Institute
Rockland, Maine
($15,000 / one year) To carry out a cod-tagging research project on a portion of coastal Maine as a part of a broader Gulf-wide effort to generate a geographically complete biological information base for the management of Atlantic cod.

Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance
Saco, Maine
($80,000 / two years) Operating support to bolster its efforts to build a network of alliances, promote its fisheries conservation/stewardship plan, and to build an independent database of fisheries science for its community empowerment efforts to restore and sustain the health of the Gulf of Maine's marine ecosystem.

St. Francis Xavier University, Centre for Community-Based Management
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
($50,000 / one year)

To design and begin to establish a "resource center" in southwestern New Brunswick to empower local citizens to influence decisions about community resources (natural, cultural, and economic). A separate grant component will help to connect the Centre's services to the needs of coastal communities in the Gulf of Maine.

University of Maine – Marine Sciences Program
Orono, Maine
($215,000 / two years) To support the expansion of its marine science/policy program by establishing a three-year masters program and by building stronger ties between the University and marine resource-dependent communities in Maine, New England, and the Canadian Maritime provinces.

Alaska Conservation Foundation
Anchorage, Alaska
($50,000 / one year) To support the Alaska Conservation Foundation's Conservation Internship Program, designed to recruit young talent, build knowledge and professional experience, and cultivate potential future conservation leaders to protect the ecological integrity of Alaska.

Canadian Nature Federation
Ottawa, Ontario
($50,000 / six months) Support for a conference and capacity-building workshops to develop a common membership vision and energize advocacy for the protection of nature within its provincial affiliates and clubs.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
Ottawa, Ontario
($10,000 / two months) To develop steps towards long-term transboundary collaboration among Canadian and American wilderness advocates.

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Nova Scotia Chapter
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($21,000 / one year) To support efforts of the chapter coordinator to continue building the organizational capacity of the Chapter with special reference to its Atlantic Ocean program.

National Audubon Society – Alaska State Office
Anchorage, Alaska
($22,800 / one year) Supplementary funding to bring its scientific expertise to bear on public policy issues involving the Chugach and Tongass National Forests, prospective oil and gas exploration in the northwestern Arctic region, and brown bear management on the Kenai Peninsula.

Sierra Club of Canada Foundation
Ottawa, Ontario
($150,000 / two years) For its work with the Sierra Club of Canada, for the purpose of building and extending the Club's capacity to be a more strategic, innovative, and enduring national force for environmental protection in Canada.

Sierra Club of Canada Foundation
Ottawa, Ontario
($75,000 / one year) For its work with the Sierra Club of Canada for the purpose of building the Club into a more strategic, innovative, and enduring national force for environmental advocacy in Canada.

Connecticut River Watershed Council
Greenfield, Massachusetts
($10,000 / one year) To improve the Council's information and networking capacity to bring people, communities, governments, and businesses together to protect and restore the ecosystem of the Connecticut River.

Consultative Group on Biological Diversity
San Francisco, California
($10,000 / two years) Operational support for the 2002-2003 biennium to continue its role as a grantmakers forum of 47 foundations seeking to focus attention on issues and program opportunities related to conservation.

Forest History Society
Durham, North Carolina
($5,000 / six months) Partial support for its project to design, print, and distribute a new booklet, Canadian Forests: A History of People and Trees, designed to serve public education and conservation purposes.

Heritage Plantation of Sandwich
Sandwich, Massachusetts
($10,000 / one year) General support for its work to preserve and share the history, industry, art, and horticulture of America.

Kendall Whaling Museum / New Bedford Whaling Museum
Sharon, Massachusetts
($277,000 / two months) To cover the final installment payment to Old Dartmouth Historical Society.

Kendall Whaling Museum / New Bedford Whaling Museum
Sharon, Massachusetts
($455,000 / three months)

Continuing support for the transition of the Kendall Whaling Museum to the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Old Dartmouth Historical Society
New Bedford, Massachusetts
($30,000 / two years) A Trustee-initiated challenge grant to stimulate gifts to the Annual Fund of the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

Trust for Public Land – New England Regional Office
Boston, Massachusetts
($30,300 / six months) Support for the summer placement of business and public policy student consultants in two pilot Massachusetts parks-the Blue Hills Reservation and the Salisbury Beach/Maudslay Complex-to conduct financial analysis modeled on the National Parks Business Plan Initiative. The interns also explored the feasibility of applying the business plan model to the Massachusetts State Park System.